Basic Trope: An artificial body part, commonly limbs, that replaces one lost.
- Straight: Bob has a mechanical right arm after losing the original in an accident.
- Exaggerated: Bob replaces nearly his entire body with artificial parts.
- Downplayed: Bob has a few artificial fingers.
- Justified:
- Bob's cybernetic arm comes loaded with features, making it far better than a copied arm.
- Any arm is better than nothing.
- Inverted:
- Bob grafts a demon's limb onto his body.
- Bob, an android, gets stuck with an organic limb after losing his robotic one.
- Subverted: Bob's artificial limb can't do anything, with its movements being his telekinesis at work.
- Double Subverted: ...However, it turns out Bob's limb was explicitly designed to be powered by his telekinesis, thus he only needs to put in a little effort.
- Parodied: Bob's limb often glitches out, and randomly flips people off, steals wallets, flips skirts, and generally acts like an ass.
- Zig Zagged: Bob's arm is chopped off, so he gets a robo-murder arm to replace it. Then that gets chopped off, so Bob decides not to bother replacing it. Then Emperor Evulz attacks, forcing Bob to get a replacement after all. Then the replacement turns out to be a defective piece of junk...
- Averted:
- Artificial limbs either can't be made, or can't actually function at all.
- Bob, an android, got a robotic limb replacement after losing one of his.
- Enforced: "We need to show everyone transhumanism is okay, thus Bob should have a robot arm."
- Lampshaded: "Wait, how are you using a robot arm? You need plenty of strength to work it so fluidly!"
- Invoked: Bob deliberately has his limbs amputated so he can get super strong ones instead.
- Exploited: Bob and others like him are constantly plagued by high power magnets.
- Defied: Bob explicitly forbids the acquiring of artificial limbs, knowing it'll quickly get out of hand with would-be heroes and villains.
- Discussed: "You're gonna get one of those neato robot arms, aren't you?"
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: To handle his robotic arm, Bob has to go through years of therapy before it functions like his old arm used to.
- Reconstructed: ... but his improved life worths it.
- Implied: Bob is always nervous around metal detectors and high power magnets, though nobody ever sees what his limbs actually look like.
We've grafted on this prosthetic back-link to Artificial Limbs after the original was mangled in a horrible editing accident.
